Du Shtetl A Broadway (From Shtetl to Swing - A Musical Odyssey

Ob Fanny Brice, Molly Picon, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin oder Benny Goodman: sie alle stammten aus jüdischen Immigrantenfamilien, die Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts ihre alte Heimat Osteuropa in Richtung Amerika verließen. Die meisten von ihnen blieben im künstlerischen und gesellschaftlichen Schmelztiegel New York.

Fabienne Rousso-Lenoir verwendet in ihrem schwungvoll geschnittenen Film beeindruckendes Archivmaterial, um uns eine amerikanisch-jüdische Musikgeschichte zu erzählen.


"The epiphany struck Fabienne Rousso-Lenoir while she was sitting in a Paris theater listening to a friend perform old songs from the Yiddish theater. 'It appeared to me suddenly, the link between the Yiddish theater and music and pop songs,' Rousso-Lenoir recalled in a phone interview from her studio in the French capital. 'It was so clear to me.' Her epiphany led to an hour-long tribute to Jewish music, musicians and composers, From Shtetl To Swing. The show, which Rousso-Lenoir wrote and directed, concentrates on the American Jewish immigrant experience and its music". (Curt Schleier, The Jewish Week, September 30, 2005)